Racist abuse aimed at Huntingdon MP
Ben Obese-Jecty has been targeted with racist insults after questioning the membership cost of Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe’s new organisation
Last updated 3rd Jul 2025
The Conservative MP for Huntingdon, Ben Obese-Jecty, has spoken out after receiving racist abuse on social media following his comments on the launch of Rupert Lowe’s new organisation, Restore Britain.
Mr Obese-Jecty described the messages he received as "shocking but sadly not surprising."
The abuse followed Mr Obese-Jecty retweeting a post by Rupert Lowe, the Independent MP for Great Yarmouth, about the cost of joining Restore Britain, which Mr Obese-Jecty has called a “non-party issue-based membership organisation” launched by Mr Lowe.
It included being compared to a monkey, calls for deportation, demands to be banned from British politics for being a “foreigner,” and other racist insults such as being called an “Uncle Tom” and a “half-African gutter snipe.”
Mr Obese-Jecty said: “There is no place in our politics for racist abuse and whilst I appreciate that being a Member of Parliament makes you a target, I shouldn’t expect the social media supporters of a fellow MP to send messages like these.”
“Having served my country in the British Army, and now as a Member of Parliament, I am staggered that there are those who still see the colour of my skin as an issue.”
Mr Obese-Jecty claims that he raised the issue with Rupert Lowe directly, but the two MPs were unable to agree on whether the abuse was a matter Rupert Lowe should support him on.
Greatest Hits Radio has approached Mr Lowe for a comment.